Chapter one: The haunted elementary and the Keeper of the Lost Souls
The building was rather mysterious and looming in the quiet darkness of the abandoned school yard. Bricks of red and gray made up the building's walls and green moss covered them. Windows that were set in black painted panes looked out into the courtyard and were covered with a thin layer of tinted glass. Linian couldn't help but feel a very dark overhanging presence around the building as she and Dark landing only a few steps from the front door. Dark was dressed in his usual black sleeveless tee with the white stripe down the middle over his black pants and shoes. Over his arm was his long tench-coat that was covered in silver buckles. Linian herself was dressed in a black and silver shirt that left her shoulders bare and covered her arms, stopping at her wrists. She wore light blue jeans with silver blue treading and black combat boots. Her black hair was tied back in a braid with stray pieces of hair framing her bronze eyes and cream colored face.
"What was our objective again?" Linian asked Dark, who was eying the looming building. With was perched on Dark's shoulder and watching the building with uneasiness.
"We have to find a necklace named 'The Keeper of Lost Souls.' Emiko said to seal it on the spot."
"That's rather strange." The bronze angel remarked and Dark gave her a funny look.
"Why's that?" Linian looked up at the building again.
"It just seems like Emiko doesn't want that artwork near them. I think we're dealing with something that has a story behind it."
"Oh now just being paranoid." Linian death glared him as he walked up the stone steps of the building. With hopped off his master's shoulder and sat by Linian's feet. Linian picked him and he kyu'ed.
"Something about this building doesn't seem right, Dark. It's hard to describe."
"Well try." He said as he began to pick the lock.
"I sense a very dark presence around this place. Like something very bad and horrific happened here." Dark hummed as he pulled the chain and lock off of the steel door handles.
"Ladies first." Linian rolled her eyes.
"Baka." She muttered as she pressed her body against the door. With a grunt, it creaked open, leading them into a dark hallway. Linian and With slipped in first and Dark followed, shutting the door behind him. There was a click and Linian was blinded by a sudden light. Linian yelped and Dark chuckled.
"Don't worry, it's a flashlight." Dark lowered the small light as Linian glared at him.
"Ass, it's creepy enough as it is." She hissed and Dark chuckled.
"Kyu!" With agreed and Dark chuckled.
"Aw, are you scared?"
"I am not!" She retorted and Dark gave her an amused look.
"Right." Linian snatched the flashlight out of Dark's hand and walked forward.
"Come on, baka. We don't have all night." Dark grunted and followed. The pair and the familiar walked slowly though the winding corridors of the hallway with Linian shining the flashlight over the corridor. The nagging feeling that they were being watched hung over Linian and she would glance over her shoulder to check if there was anyone behind them. Dark noticed and tapped her shoulder, making her jump.
"Linian, it's going to be okay. I'm right here and there isn't anything to be afraid of." He reassured her, taking her hand. Linian smiled and gave it a light squeeze. Still holding Dark's hand, Linian and Dark walked deeper into the school. She froze when a cold breeze brushed her shoulder.
"What is it?" Dark asked and Linian's eyes narrowed.
"I felt something cold brush against me." Linian shone the flashlight around the corridor they were standing it.
"I wonder if..." She murmured. She let go of Dark's hand and drew a bronze feather from her pocket. She gently scooped With off her shoulder and let him hop onto Dark's shoulder.
"Show me what is unseen..." She spoke in Latin, making the feather glow bronze. Tendrils of bronze touched her eyes and she opened them to gasp. Two female students between the age of ten and eleven were walking aimlessly up and down the hallway. What she noticed upon closer inspection was they were tinted blue and horribly mutated. One of the girl spirits brushed by her with nothing above her neck. Another girl spirit was walking around with her left eye gorged out. Both of the spirits were making gurgling nosies and moaning as they pasted. The girl with the missing left eye kept moaning:
"Gih id back! Gih id back!"
"Linian, What's wrong?" She looked over at Dark.
"Don't you see it?"
"See what?" Linian simply touched his forehead and allowed her magic to flood into him. It jolted him a little then he gasped as he set eyes on the spirits that were wandering up and down the hall.
"Who are those kids?" Dark asked and Linian shrugged.
"I don't know. Does Daisuke know?" Dark shrugged.
'Daisuke, do you see the spirits?'
\\Yes, why, Dark?\\
'Do you know who they are?'
Daisuke was silent and Dark waited.
\\I remember reading about a string of kidnappings and murders that happened at an elementary school some years ago. The spirits must be the victims./
'Thanks Daisuke.' Dark looked at Linian.
"Apparently this was an elementary school where a string of kidnappings and murders happened." Dark sidestepped to avoid the girl with the missing head. With kyu'ed in fright and Dark patted his head.
"Those must be the spirits of the victims of the murders."
"They can't be older then grade five and six." Linian said with sorrow in her voice.
"Who would do this to only kids?" Dark shrugged.
"A very twisted person, that's for sure. Kinda sounds like something Krad would do." Linian rolled her eyes and walked on.
\\I remember hearing about four victims. All of them girls.\\ Daisuke remarked.
'If those two were two of the victims, then the other two should be somewhere around here.' The flashlight beam scanned over the walls and floor as Linian and Dark walked farther down the corner.
"That explains the dark presence." Linian remarked. "It must have been the lost spirits of the children that were murdered."
"Wouldn't they have moved on by now?" Dark asked and she shook her head.
"Sometimes lives that ended abruptly can't move on for whatever reason. Some are angry and will attack people on sight. Others morn and can't move on unless someone releases them, or in Katsan's case, don't want to move on and can stay bond to someone or something that held weight in their life." Dark lifted an eyebrow.
"Did Katsan tell you that?"
"No, I just know that from talking to spirits."
"Of course you do." The hallway they were in soon opened up to a common area with benches and tiles. Windows that looked in offered some light to the large room that Linian turned off the flashlight. Dark tapped her shoulder and she jumped. Dark tried to shuffle a snicker as Linian glared.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, Linian." Linian rolled her eyes.
"Sure, baka."
"You need to stop calling me that." Linian could see a pout on the phantom thief's face. A smirk twisted her lips.
"I only call you that because it's true." She retorted. Dark frowned and she snickered. They walked forward, searching for their target. Their footfalls clicked on the tiles and the sound echoed loudly off the walls.
"It's not here." Dark muttered and Linian told him to hush. She listened intently to hear the steady footsteps coming their way.
"Dark, someone's coming."
"Probably a cop, hide." He grabbed her wrist and pulled Linian behind a shadowed column. With softly kyu'ed again and Dark hushed him. The footsteps grew louder and louder, until a voice rung out.
"Are you really resorting to hiding in the shadows, Dark?" Dark scowled when he recognized the voice. Krad.
"What's he doing here?" Linian whispered and Dark shrugged. Linian peered around the other side of the column to see that it was indeed Krad. He was standing in the center of the room, scanning it with cold gold eyes for the pair of thieves.
"Now where are you two hiding?" A wave of cold washed over Linian suddenly and she gave a little gasp. A childish giggle rung out loud and clear.
"What the?" Dark asked, looking around.
"What is that?" Krad asked, doing the same. Linian listened to find that the laughter was coming from... behind her. She turned on her heel and cried out as a black shadow sent her flying back. She grunted as she connected with the hard tile floor.
"Oof!" Dark landed next to her.
"Kyu!" Linian sat up in time to catch the flying rabbit that had fallen off of Dark's shoulder. Krad sent flying back and pinned to the wall by an unseen force. The giggling sounded again and the three watched the shadow twist, until it took the form of a small girl about eleven with long black hair and gray empty eyes. Her sailor uniform was stained crimson and in her hand was a pair of large rusted sewing scissors that were soaked with blood.
"Hello, do you want to play with me?" She asked in a high pitched voice. She began to slowly open and close the scissors, the soft sip, sip, sip sounds echoed off the walls of the room. Linian stood and took a step closer to the girl.
"Why do you have those scissors?" She asked slowly.
"These? It's my plaything, don't you want to play with me?" Linian shot a glance at Krad, who was looking at the girl like she was completely insane. Linian quickly turned back to the girl.
"It's your plaything? Didn't someone tell you not to play with scissors?"
"They did, but I never listened." The girl giggled again and her form shifted back to a shadow again.
"I know what you want to find, but in order to find, you have to play with me." Her voice rung out. Krad dropped down and Dark stood.
"Stand back to back." Linian ordered and they both reluctantly complied.
"Who are you?" Linian asked.
"I'm your worse nightmare come to life. Every fear that you've had, I embody it." The girl's voice said. The slow sipping noises continued to echo off the bare walls of the room and the three angels scanned for the girl.
"If I should die as I sleep, then let all the angels weep.
If I should die before I wake, I pray to the Lord my soul to take." The voice, this one hollow spoke.
"That girl's worse than creepy boy." Dark muttered, earning a sideways glare from Krad.
"Why is she singing that quote?" Linian wondered aloud.
"To be creepy?" Dark supplied and Linian frowned.
"Shush Dark." She snapped and listened as the faint sipping sound of the scissors opening and closing. With bounced up onto her shoulder as she drew a feather.
'Allow me to see though your eyes.' Linian spoke in Latin, making the feather glow. The childish giggle from before rung out again.
"Come play my game..." The girl's voice rung out. Suddenly the floor opened and Linian screamed as they started to fall. A wind sucked them in like a black hole, making it difficult to escape by flying. Linian held on tightly to With and locked hands with Dark.
"Hang on!" With gave a frightened kyu as Linian held him close to her chest with one arm and held tightly onto one of Dark's hand's with her free hand. Linian tightly closed her eyes as the world went black.
A/N: First horror fanfiction and to be honest I kinda like it. I got inspired after (Won't you believe it) Watching Cry play Corpse party. I liked the storyline of the game and changed it around a little to make it my own. Hehe, I'm really mean to my characters. I just kinda spilled it out and I worked on the ending during my free block at school and during time when I was done my work. ^^ Hehe, anyways, I don't own Dark or Krad, or Daisuke. Just Linian and the other characters that DIDN'T appear in the anime or the manga, they are mine. And please leave a comment! Hopefully it's good for my first time. ^^' TTFN! Legend to font below:
'Daisuke talking via mindlink'
/Dark talking via mindlink/
'Any of the angels chanting in Latin.' Please note: Most of the time I will tell you readers who is chanting, most of the time it's either Dark or Linian.